- 2017 Dr Meng Aw-Yong
- 2015 Mr Robert Brown
- 2013 Professor Robert J. Flanagan
- 2011 Professor Michael Kopelman
- 2009 Dr Roy Palmer
- 2007 The Right Honourable Lord Justice Beatson
- 2005 Professor Sir Barry Jackson
- 2003 Professor Sir Colin Berry
- 2001 The Right Honourable Lord Justice Hooper
- 1999 Professor A. W. Goode
- 1997 Professor J. Stewart Orr
- 1996 Professor Peter Vanezis OBE
- 1995 Her Honour Judge Ann Goddard QC
- 1994 Bernard Grant Simms MBE
- 1993 Sir Montague Levine
- 1992 His Honour Judge Timothy Lawrence
- 1991 Dr Patrick J Lincoln
- 1990 Professor George C Jenkins
- 1989 G.J. Connor
- 1988 Dr P. Toseland
- 1987 Dr David M. Paul
- 1986 Roger Henderson QC
- 1985 Margaret Pereira CBE
- 1984 Dr J.D. Havard
- 1983 The Right Honourable Lord Justice Waller
- 1982 Dr Ronald Coleman
- 1981 Dr W.A.R Thompson
- 1980 H.D. Walton QPM
- 1979 Professor Barbara E. Dodd
- 1978 Professor J. Malcolm Cameron
- 1977 His Honour Judge Cox
- 1976 A Fraser McIntosh OBE
- 1975 Professor A. Keith Mant
- 1974 Professor Cyril J. Polson
- 1973 The Honourable Sir Gerald Thesiger
- 1972 Dr. Walter Somerville
- 1971 Dr. A John Howard
- 1970 Sir Roger Ormrod
- 1969 Dr. I.G.W. Pickering VRD
- 1968 Professor E.G.C. Clarke
- 1967 Sir David Napley
- 1966 Professor T.C.N. Gibbens CBE
- 1965 Dr. H.J. Walls
- 1964 The Right Honourable Lord Justice Lawton
- 1963 Professor Francis E. Camps
- 1962 Dr. L. Harrison Mathews FRS
- 1961 Sir Thomas George Lund
- 1960 Professor Sir Leon Radzinowicz
